Hair curling and crimping device



(No Model.)

M. CAMPBELL.

HAIR UURLING AND CRIMPING DEVICE. No. 381,983.

Patented May 1, '1888.

V, I wfiv Ca UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARK CAMPBELL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,

HAIR CURLING AND CRIMPING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming-part of Letters Patent No. 381,983. dated May 1,1888.

Application filed January 27, 1888.

To all whom it may concern: 0

Be it known that .1, MARK CAMPBELL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair-ManipulatingAppliances, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and tothe letters of reference marked thereon, which form part of thisspecification.

The invention'consists in the combination and operative arrangement ofparts, hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the appended claim.

The appliance-is particularly intended for use in the work of curling,crimping, frizzing, or otherwise manipulating hair, wherein heat isemployed for giving permanent or substantially permanent form thereto,and in the accompanying drawings is illustrated in the most desirableform for such purpose; but the details of construction shown may bevaried to meet any practical requirements which are presented in thework to which it is generally adapted.

The invention embraces in the manner substantially illustrated herewitha cylinder, tube, casing, or jacket fixedly carried by a suitablehandle, a core movably carried by said cylinder, tube, casing, or jacketinteriorly thereof, and a compressing jaw or blade which works upon theexterior of said outer member, or, alternatively, a core fixedly carriedby said handle, a cylinder, tube, casing, or jacket movably carried bythe said core, and a compressing j aw or blade operatively arranged, asabove set forth. The relative arrangement of the said cylinder, tube,casing, or jacket and the core is such that one of the said members ismovable with reference to the member which is fixed to the handle, sothat the core may be exposed for the purpose of heating the same, andafterward covered by the outer member preliminarily to using theappliance 'in the work of manipulating the hair. Between the adjacentsurfaces of the two members a space is provided within which the aircirculates for the purpose of limiting or graduating the effects uponthe outer member of the radiant heat from the core.

The essential feature of construction in the appliance in so far as thesaid two members Serial No. 262,125. (No model.)

are concerned is the operative location of the core within the outermember, as is herein described, whereby the core may be exposed andcovered for the purposes set forth without separating the same from thesaid outer member, as is the case in known appliances of the samegeneral character. One of the leading advantages attained by thusconstructing and operatively arranging the said members is the fact thatthe difficulty and'danger arising from inserting a heated core into theouter member after the hair is curled or otherwise arranged thereon isobviated, it being obvious that in my appliance the core is securely andreadily stored within its outer covering before the manipulation of thehair is attempted.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is aside elevation of my said invention,showing the core B, which is longitudinally movable, in its normalposition within a cylindrical jacket, A, which is fixed to the handle 0.Fig. 2 is also a side elevation of the appliance, showing the said coreprojecting from the outer member, its position being such as it wouldoccupy when being heated. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the appliance,showing the manner in which the core B is exposed when the outer memberis adapted to move instead of the core. Fig. 4 is a longitudinalsectional detail of the appliance, showing the construction of the coreand outer member, the core being longitudinally movable, as shown inFigs. 1 and 2. Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional detail of the core andouter member, taken on the line X X of said Fig. 1.

Referring by letter to the several figures of the drawings, in whichlike letters denote like parts,.O is the handle of the appliance,desirably formed of spring-wire, to one end ofwhich is fixed a cylinder,A, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 4, or the core B, as shown in Fig. 3. Thesaid core is provided with astop, 12, preferably in the form of aprojecting portion, as shown in Fig. 4, the cylinder A being providedwith a similar reversed projection, a, or its equivalent, which are themeans, as a matter of preference, which I employ for securing the saidmembers together.

a is a continuous space provided between the adjacent surfaces of saidcore and cylinder, adapted to permit a current of air tocirculatebetween the said members when the core is heated and in its operativeposition, its purpose being to prevent the cylinder from becoming toohot, andthereby damaging the hair.

0 is the free end of the handle 0, which forms a compressing jaw orblade which bears upon the cylinder A for securing the hair upon saidcylinder, the handle G being given such form as is best calculated toexert a constant tension ofthe said jaw 01' blade toward the cylinder,with which it cooperates.

The core and cylinder are, as a matter of preference, fitted to eachother sufficiently loosely to enable the movable member to be throwninto the position shown in Figs. 2 and p 3 by a forward or jerkingmovement of the hand which grasps the handle 0, and to be returned toits normal position by simply holding the appliance in a verticalposition.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent Incurling, crimping, or frizzing appliances, the combination of a handle,a heating-core, and a cylinder, tube, casing, or jacket operativelylocated exterior of said core, the arrangement of said parts being suchthat either the core or said outer member is fixed to the handle and theother member is capable of movement longitudinally thereof for adistance sufficient to expose the core, substantially as shown, and forthe purpose set forth.

MARK CAMPBELL.

Witn esses:

Mosns VANLANDINGHAM, ALLEN B. CHILCOAT.

